Homegrown Music Festival

The Homegrown Music Festival is an annual community celebration of the original and diverse music of Duluth, Minn. and its surrounding communities. What started in 1999 with five acts has matured in its 20th year to an eight-day community-wide local music, arts and cultural extravaganza.

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The Bottle Jockeys

The Bottle Jockeys

Long before hyphenated music genres and the banjo/washboard explosion of the 2000s, there were simple, straightforward rock bands like Giljunko and the Black Labels. A few dinosaurs from those defunct Duluth acts joined forces in 2015 to form the Bottle Jockeys. Like cockroaches or a bad rash, the fearsome fivesome of Tony Derrick, Ben Marsen, Chris Whittier, Scott Millis and Chad Lyons will not go away. They promise a set of mostly new material at this year’s Homegrown, but do not promise a debut album in 2018.